Mur

The Mur is a river in Central Europe rising within the Hohe Tauern country wide park of the Central Eastern Alps in Austria with its source being 1,898 m above sea degree. It is a tributary of the Drava and subsequently the Danube. The Mur's general period is round 464 kilometres. About 326 km are in the interior of Austria; 95 km go with the flow in and round Slovenia 67 km alongside the borders with Austria and Croatia, 28 km inner Slovenia and the rest forms the border among Croatia and Hungary.

The biggest town on the river is Graz, Austria. Its basin covers an area of 13,800 km2. The river rises in a remote valley within the Lungau region of Austrian nation of Salzburg. The river flows eastwards through Tamsweg earlier than crossing the border into the kingdom of Styria. Between Tamsweg and Unzmarkt Frauenburg the river flows through a rural mountain valley and is closely paralleled via the 65 km long slender gauge Murtalbahn railway.